Jalen Brunson

How much more room does Jalen Brunson have to grow? TSN's Scott Rafferty takes a closer look after the former Maverick agreed to a massive deal with the ...

Brunson is at his best when he's creating out of the pick-and-roll, and he's proven to be a pretty good one-on-one scorer. At the time of this writing, Brunson's $26 million annual average salary ranks 15th among point guards and could drop as more players sign this summer and next. That's quite impressive considering he went from having the same usage rate as a role player like Goran Dragic to a primary creator like Anthony Edwards. No. Is he a starting-caliber guard with room still to grow? So is Brunson a star? Nearly a fifth of his shot attempts in 2021-22 were catch-and-shoot 3s, and he canned them at a healthy 40.1 percent clip. After riding shotgun next to Luka Doncic in a supporting role, Brunson will get the opportunity to show what he can do behind the wheels. He posted the best numbers of his career to the tune of 16.3 points, 4.8 assists and 3.9 rebounds on .502/.373/.840 shooting splits. Brunson shines as a midrange scorer. He's also kind of a bully. He then took his game to another level in the playoffs, helping the Mavericks make the Western Conference Finals with averages of 21.6 points, 4.6 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game. Outside of scoring, Brunson is a solid passer and while he's a limited defender, he's smart and is almost always in the right place.

Somehow, someway, the Dallas Mavericks always seem to bungle things when it comes to NBA free agency ... not only with trying to add star players, ...

Given that Brunson was unrestricted, there's a chance that he still could've left no matter what the Mavs offered ... but the Mavs are claiming that they never gave an official offer, and that's a preposterous thing to say about your own free agent who you've talked with for four years now. Even if the Mavs thought $27 million+ per year was an overpay for Brunson, the downside to that was nothing compared to the downside of losing him for nothing – which they did (a sign-and-trade with New York could still be possible, but isn't likely). Instead of adding a team option for the fourth year and giving Brunson the opportunity to hit the restricted free agency market in 2021, he received a straight four-year deal, enabling him to be an unrestricted free agent this summer. The only thing that would've changed by presenting Brunson with an acceptable offer is Cuban's wallet. After making all those miscalculations with Brunson, the Mavs still could've made up for their previous mistakes by out-bidding the Knicks in free agency in order to keep their second-best player. If the Mavs' reported offer of $105 million over five years is true ... did they really believe that was going to be enough?

What level of impact can Jalen Brunson have for the New York Knicks? Jarrett Jack, Frank Ntilikina, Elfrid Payton, Emmanuel Mudiay, Jose Calderón.

The Knicks have had a point guard carousel for the past 10 years and won 37 games with Alec Burks playing out of position to run the show for most of last season. The New York Knicks and Jalen Brunson have come to an agreement on a four-year deal worth roughly $110 million. That’s why the team thought it was essential to finally find the long-term answer to the lead-guard position.

Same goes for Brunson's role as a lead guard on his own team, the status he'd never achieve in Dallas so long as Luka Doncic is around. Most of these items fall ...

Even if Brunson emerges as a franchise-making talent in New York, he won’t be a franchise-breaking loss for Dallas. But the road back to the final four just got tougher, to say nothing of what must come after that. Each of them traces back to the Mavericks’ original sin: the perpetual mismanagement of their own resources as they chase—and inevitably miss out on—the big score. The twist with Brunson was that this time, one of their own became the big score they chased and missed out on. We know Dallas somehow was caught off guard by New York committing this much money to Brunson—the first non-All-Star to change teams for nine-figure money in league history—despite the Knicks, a self-professed family-first operation with a reckless streak, telegraphing their punches the whole way. His father, former NBA journeyman Rick Brunson, is a newly minted assistant on the Knicks coaching staff after coaching high school ball for the last three years, a development that may or may not have had something to do with his being the very first client of Knicks president Leon Rose back when Rose was an agent for Creative Artists Agency (CAA). Rose, as it happens, also represented Jalen Brunson at the start of his Mavericks career, before moving into the front office. Whatever you make of Jalen Brunson’s decision to sign with the New York Knicks for four years and $104 million, understand there are factors in play that transcend money.

A breakdown and grading of Jalen Brunson's 4-year, $104 million dollar deal with the New York Knicks in 2022 NBA Free Agency.

Brunson was often left in the shadows last season by the media due to the Luka Doncic effect. The New York Knicks swooped in and stole Jalen Brunson from the Dallas Mavericks. New York signed the guard to a 4-year, $104 million dollar deal. Adding someone with the playmaking ability of Brunson should aid his development. To make matters worse, the team had lofty expectations entering the season. The New York Knicks endured a miserable 2021-2022 campaign. But was this a good move by the Knicks?

A lot of big deals were signed on Thursday night as NBA free agency began but few deals garnered more attention than the New York Knicks officially signing ...

The Bulls and Derrick Jones have agreed to a new two-year contract that will keep the free agent forward in Chicago, reports Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter link). According to Charania, Jones’ two-year deal will be worth $6.6M, with a second-year player option. The former Virginia Cavalier was sent to Indiana in July 2019 and helped the Pacers reach the postseason in "The Bubble," where he averaged a double-double of 21.5 points and 10.0 assists in a first-round sweep at the hands of the Miami Heat. Brogdon was limited to a career-low 36 games last season due to an Achilles injury, but still averaged 19.1 points, 5.9 assists and 5.1 rebounds per contest, while posting a .448/.312/.856 shooting line. The trade is the first significant move of the offseason for president of basketball operations Brad Stevens, head coach Ime Udoka and company, after they chose Alabama's JD Davison with their lone selection of last week's NBA Draft. Brogdon had been rumored to be on the block, as Shams Charania noted two weeks ago that the Pacers were "seriously discussing" trades surround the 29-year-old guard, as well as star big man Myles Turner. After being taken by the Milwaukee Bucks in the second round of the 2016 NBA Draft, Brogdon finished his debut season with 10.2 points, 4.2 assists, 2.8 rebounds and 1.1 steals per game across 75 games (28 starts) while posting a .457/.404/.865 shooting line and was named the Rookie of the Year. During his third and final season with the Bucks, Brogdon led the league in free throw percentage at 92.8 percent, which is still a career-high. Despite Chicago losing the first round of the playoffs this season and concerns over his fit with DeRozan, LaVine is happy to stay put. Boston reached the postseason in each of the last six seasons under coach Bruce Cassidy but lost in the first round twice and the second round three times. He only has three starts after missing the start of the season due to injury, but has allowed at least three runs in all of them. They will try to get back to their winning ways in order to re-enter the race for the AL Central. Let's take a look at the odds via WynnBET for the opening game of this interleague series. What made it all the more stunning was the reveal that the two schools were the ones who initiated the move, not the Big Ten. With UCLA and USC, the Big tEn is now on the verge of a billion-dollar TV deal Well, while competition level certainly played a factor in those storied sports programs' decision to leave the PAC-12, in the end, huge sums of cold hard cash were a major influence on the move. He ranks first in first five inning ERA, which makes the Dodgers a near auto-bet in the first five when he gets the start. "Our priority is focused on the man Jaylon was and the positive impact he made on so many as a father, son, fiancé, friend and teammate," the Ravens said in a statement shared by media outlets on Friday. "It would be inappropriate for us to comment further while we continue to support his family and teammates, who are mourning the tragic loss of a loved one and will celebrate his life [Saturday]." According to Jamison Hensley of ESPN, medical examiners said on Friday that Ferguson died from the combined effects of fentanyl and cocaine. The NFL community was shocked and saddened to learn on June 22 that Baltimore Ravens outside linebacker Jaylon Ferguson had unexpectedly passed away at the age of 26.

With Jalen Brunson leaving the Mavericks breaking earlier in the week, we opted to see where the fanbase is in terms of which party involved in the signing ...

Let me know in the comments. Interestingly, Jalen Brunson took second place here with 26%, and as we learn more about how this entire process went about, that attitude may shift. Mark Cuban walked away with the highest percentage at 27% and to some degree that makes sense.